It won't go away Ted and Giles. It won't go away.

You see Alan; the way the pubcos work is to make all their individual lessees feel like they are the only ones who are finding it hard. They succeed, as Steve Corbett pointed out somewhere here; by dividing and conquering.

It won't go away Ted and Giles. It won't go away.

We're all out on a limb and they make / take advantage of us all.

They work on the premise that we all feel paranoid. We - all oc us individuals - don't believe that everyone else can possibly be in dire straights as well. That just doesn't make sense. So how can a Select Committee believe it either?

This is how the pubcos got away with it in 2004 and 2005 and all the other times the pubco model has been looked at by government and regulatory bodies. No on can believe that it's possible for a few big wigs to rip of hundreds of thousands of people and get away with it comprehensively without anyone making so much as a pip squeak of real protest.

The difference between now and any other time the pubco model has been looked at is simple:

It won't go away Ted and Giles. It won't go away.

Every MP on that committee - as all other MPs - has had lots of their constituents coming to them and saying 'we're being killed by our freeholders' and the MPs realise this is not a coincidence, it;s because their constituents are actually being put out of business by their freeholders.

It won't go away Ted and Giles. It won't go away.